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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451623903321

Autore

Japtok Martin

Titolo

Growing up ethnic [[electronic resource] ] : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction / / by Martin Japtok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005

ISBN

1-58729-594-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

813.5209896073

Soggetti

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism

Judaism and literature - United States

Maturation (Psychology) in literature

African Americans in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Youth in literature

Jews in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I:  The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man; Chapter 2: Fanny Herself and Plum Bun: Art and Ethnic Solidarity; Chapter 3: Brown Girl, Brownstones and Bread Givers:Reconciling Ethnicity and Individualism; Chapter 4: Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Literary Responses; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Growing Up Ethnic examines the presence of literary similarities between African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories in the first half of the twentieth century; often these similarities exceed what could be explained by sociohistorical correspondences alone. Martin Japtok argues that these similarities result from the way both



African American and Jewish American authors have conceptualized their ""ethnic situation."" The issue of ""race"" and its social repercussions certainly defy any easy comparisons. However, the fact that the ethnic situations are far from identical in the